Author: Reinhold BichlerPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz VerlagISBN: 9783447058575Size: 71.25 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 5978DownloadRead Online
The rise and fall of classical Athens forms the historical background to that
famous Platonian logos, which was used by the philosopher to integrate his
political thinking into his grand view of the origins and development of the divine
cosmos and the human state. This political thinking was basically retrospective.
As the Platonic type of 'Staatsutopie' happened to influence most later utopianism
, Plato's tendency to retrospection became one of the principles of that fascinating
gerne.

Author: Melissa S. LanePublisher: Camden HouseISBN: 157113462XSize: 53.35 MBFormat: PDFView: 1290DownloadRead Online
Some twenty-six books about Plato were published by members of the Circle,
culminating in Platon: Der Kampf des Geistes um die Macht (1933) by the
medical doctor and philosopher Kurt Hildebrandt. Yet even before Hildebrandt's
book was published, external discussion of Plato's importance for the Circle had
already begun with Franz Josef Brecht's 1929 Platon und der George-Kreis.1 It is
well known that Friedrich Wolters's reference to the Circle as a “staat” was a
deliberate ...